North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 468)
Zahir Ladhani is the founder of Velocity Strategic Consulting and teaches strategy at Kennesaw State University. Zahir visited host John Ray in the North Fulton Business Radio studio to discuss how his firm coaches businesses on scaling up, what’s required of leadership to take that path, the vital role of cash, leading vs. lagging metrics, a company’s core values, their best fit clients, and much more.
North Fulton Business Radio is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.
Velocity Strategic Consulting works with leaders who have the willingness and desire to move their companies from where they are now to where they think they can be.
We help teams create and execute on a vision of what it looks like to win so they can:
+ Manage and accelerate their growth
+ Grow faster and more profitably
+ Generate more cash flow
+ Build high-performance teams and drive accountability
+ Spend less time in the business and more time on the business
Velocity Strategic Consulting’s proven formula of 4 Decisions, 3 Habits, and 1 Catalyst provides their clients with measurable results.
Four Decisions: People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash.
Three Habits: Priorities, Metrics, and Meeting Rhythms.
One Catalyst: Coach.
Zahir Ladhani, Managing Director, Velocity Strategic Consulting
Zahir Ladhani brings more than 30 years of ‘in the trenches’ experience with SaaS, Consumer, Human Capital, Pharmaceutical, and Management Consulting industries. A talented communicator and proven leader who has grown businesses and product lines and was a key member of the executive leadership team in the sale of a company to a Fortune 100 company. Zahir works with senior executives and leadership teams to scale up businesses by improving their discipline around people, strategy, execution, and accountability for sustainable growth. He has worked with numerous clients in easing the complexity that growth often brings, allowing leaders to focus more time on building their businesses, by leveraging transformative tools, processes and principles.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Accounting from the University of Waterloo in Canada and a Master of Arts in International Relations from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Boston.
Questions and Topics in this Interview:
- Why do so many companies stall in their growth?
- How do you define growth for a company?
- Tell me more about what you mean by having the Right People in the Right seats?
- Why is being the best not a good strategy?
- What is more important – Strategy or Execution?
- What do you mean by Revenue is vanity?
North Fulton Business Radio is hosted by John Ray and broadcast and produced from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, TuneIn, and others.
Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has grown to become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions with over $13 billion in assets and more than 190 banking, lending, wealth management and financial services offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. All of Renasant’s success stems from each of their banker’s commitment to investing in their communities as a way of better understanding the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you every day.
Special thanks to A&S Culinary Concepts for their support of this edition of North Fulton Business Radio. A&S Culinary Concepts, based in Johns Creek, is an award-winning culinary studio, celebrated for corporate catering, corporate team building, Big Green Egg Boot Camps, and private group events. They also provide oven-ready, cooked from scratch meals to go they call “Let Us Cook for You.” To see their menus and events, go to their website or call 678-336-9196.
